The drug cartels of Venezuela and Mexico kidnap their rivals ... which smuggles the drug from Colombia to the US via the impoverished state of Apure. From poor border towns along the rivers across stretches of prairie, megabandas are now the de facto ...

Each band consists of at least 30 and up to 60 people, Mayorca reports, and operate in the states of Apure, Carabobo ... Once the most prosperous nation in South America, Venezuela is now subject to rampant poverty and shortages of basic supplies and ...

Zulia and Apure the distribution of food supply CLAP boxes, where they decide who is delivered and who is not". He explained that this irregular situation that has been occurring since last October, allows the ELN to give the food, "to that population that ...

These violent gangs operating out of both Venezuela and Mexico kidnap their rivals ... which smuggles the drug from Colombia to the US via the impoverished state of Apure. From poor border towns along the rivers across stretches of prairie, megabandas ...

For the period between Jan. 2017 and Jan. 2018, 952 measles cases were reported in Venezuela (732 by laboratory and 220 ... although there were cases reported in Apure, Anzoategui, Delta Amacuro, the Capital District, Miranda, Monagas, Vargas, and Zulia.

The MUD cannot renew its registration with electoral authorities because of irregularities in seven states of Venezuela (Aragua, Apure, Bolívar, Carabobo, Monagas, Trujillo and Zulia), temporarily suspending the coalition's activities in such states.

News Venezuela » Apure: Cocaine’s Flow Is Unchecked in Venezuela

But because of antagonistic relations with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, the reach of American drug agents, and the aid that comes with them, does not extend here. “Our airspace has been taken over,” said Luis Lippa, a former governor of Apure ...

The U.S. government says that more than 200 tons a year of cocaine flows through Venezuela, about a third of Colombia's estimated production. Much of it is believed to pass through Apure. The U.S has been steadily stepping up pressure on high-ranking ...